Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – Weekly Sunday Homily

“We were really in collegiality, and that was a great experience.” Edgar Beltrán Jan 13, 2026 Link to full article (includes comments, links to share and subscription details) https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/a-real-experience-of-being-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Although…

praytellblog.com carries an item of new “super” parishes being created in Germany with an average of 35,000 parishioners but in this case with a population of 99,000.
Is this where ‘clustering’ is taking us? Is there any reason the planned structure for administration and pastoral care could not be employed using lay people in our current parishes?

Western People 5.9.2023 Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are birds of a feather that once flew together. They were two of a kind, cut from the same cloth – tousled-haired,…

Every member of the Irish Bishops’ Conference received a copy of the ACI report Exploratory Pilot Study of Lay Involvement and Co-Responsibility at the December 2019 meeting of the conference.

Western People 14.2.23 There are times when I cannot help but feel huge pride for my country. Once was when the then Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, resisted pressure to cap the…

Dear ACP Member   The Irish Bishops are inviting submissions on methods/models to be adopted before the Synodal Pathway consultation gets underway. They are seeking submissions of no more than…